THE YEAR OF THE MACHINES This fall, in Northwest Arkansas, the Tech Summit takes on the current zeitgeist Kris Adams, NWA Tech Summit Director EVERY YEAR, THE Northwest Arkansas Tech Summit begins with brainstorming sessions among our advisory committee of some 60 people representing entities from tech startups to tech accelerators to tech freelancers to […]
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Debanjan Mahata, Ph.D.Senior Machine Learning Research EngineerBloomberg FOR A LONG time, to the average person “machine learning” just seemed like one of those techy buzzwords with a vague meaning and an even more vague relevance. But in the few short months since AI jumped out of sci-fi movies into our everyday lives, the technology behind
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“LIKE HIRING AN INTERN” The data shows that AI has effortlessly become part of our everyday lives FROM PLANNING A garden to organizing a meal…making a playlist to designing a gift…writing an office memo to composing a wedding speech…skimming a reading list to sorting through massive photo archives—these days, AI is being used in all
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IN OBSERVANCE OF “The Year of the Machines,” I wanted to emphasize the need for our state’s workers to learn as much as they can about AI. To make the point of how effective AI can be in your working life, I asked our AI friend Bard, from Google, to help me say a few words: “As artificial
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On Google’s 25th anniversary, its CEO ponders AI…Employee analytics, dream or micro-management?…Virtual-reality check: How long before we live in the metaverse? Check it all out right here. Sundar Pichai on Google’s AI, Microsoft’s AI, OpenAI, and … Did We Mention AI? – Wired The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare? Harvard Business
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THE TECHNOLOGY OF INFLUENCE As long as there have been people, there have been “influencers.” Tech has taken the game to a whole new level Nitin Agarwal, Ph.D., Maulden-Entergy Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Science, Director, Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS), University of Arkansas at Little Rock FROM THE CAVEMAN
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DRONES HAVE BEEN around since World War I, and the long narrative of their history has been heavily entwined with warfare itself. Today, though, a drone overhead doesn’t mean you need to duck and cover. In the modern world, drone technology is increasingly used for all manner of peaceful purposes. In 2016, Virginia-Beach based DroneUp
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A PARENT’S GUIDE TO IT CAREERS If you think your child’s future lies with the local fast-food outlets, here are 6 excellent reasons to think again The ACDS Team A PROFESSOR WE know was on a college recruiting visit to a medium-size Arkansas city when the mother of an 18-year-old daughter approached him with an
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How much did this morning’s meeting cost? Here’s the data…STEM needs more women, but recruiters often keep them out…Cool new roof technology for a hotter world. Check it all out right here. Shopify’s CFO explains how its new meeting cost calculator works, and how it will cut 474,000 events in 2023: ‘Time is money’ –
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AT ACDS, THERE’S always something exciting going on. You may have heard about our latest news, but, just in case, I wanted to share with our newsletter subscribers a press release that went out on Friday, August 25: LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas -The Arkansas Center for Data Sciences (ACDS) is announcing that it will serve to
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